wearable web 3 & 4

Following on from last post's comment on gendering of the Web... it occurs to me that the Web won't be or can't be successfully gendered by in the way I suggested. Just because feminine terms out-rank masculine terms, etc. Bibliometric brute force won't make the Web pink nor blue. Many reasons for this (maybe more on the subject later), but the main idea is that since we can't 'gender' the Web, it remains for the Web to increasingly disrupt basic identity categories of us... that is, the tabs that we use to build up identity (gender, race or ethnicity, languages, others) will be subverted and (forgive the term) fractalized by the Web's presence in/on our bodies. There's something important here about the body really becoming a proving ground now for Haraway's feminist cyborgs, but I haven't thought it through yet...

wearable web 2

Some not yet fully connected thoughts about this:

Localization of the Web in the body is... well, it mashes up 'global and local' (in the Zygmunt Bauman type sense, and in just the general 'common sense' sense). Localizes the whole. Gives the whole a seat at the head of the table in your own head.

The app / invention in this video flips the QR Code vector for virtual/physical book hybrids I promote in the book and more or less obviates any previous "flat" phone apps like Kaywa and Semacode... Or does it just increase the reach and use of QR Code? Not sure yet.

If the Web is becoming part of the body, might we have to begin asking things about it that help to code or identify it in terms of other body categories.... thinking of gender, health, ethnicity... Can we begin to talk of a "feminine" or "masculine" web if we look at the total of all the terms and descriptors for all "objects" online and say that on balance there is more of shift toward this or that gender? Can we talk about the web as medicine, if the info we access on/in/through the body gets us the info that helps to treat illness?

More laters.

Listening: DeVotchKa, "curse your little heart"

Weather: Hard and hot.

web 3.0, 21 july

Notes from web trawling:

Second Thoughts: Reply to Glyn Moody, Three Years Later By Prokofy Neva Web 3.0 and the remainders of Web 2.0, whether you like it or not, will be a story of a big fork away from opensource occurs, because it simply doesn't work *for enough people*, and over to proprietary coded platforms that secure IP in ... Second Thoughts - http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/

10 Impressive New Implementations of Facebook Connect By Josh Catone And, how easy is it to create a fake female identity on FB? C'mon! Fail!! Web 3.0 is about trust. FB profiles are not trustworthy... Darin Gerhardson. Follow me on http://www.twitter.com/VegasClub. The best VIP services. Thanks. ... Mashable! - http://mashable.com/

Deal Radar 2009: Confidela | Sramana Mitra on Strategy By SramanaMitra Shailendra on Forbes Column 2009: Open Source Means Business; Do you think is bing fulfills web 3.0criteria? Be… Shailendra on Web 3.0 & the Semantic Web; With Gujrat sharing its border both with Pakistan … ... Sramana Mitra on Strategy - http://www.sramanamitra.com/

IJKEDM - Special Issue on: "Incentives for Semantic Content ... By gtorodelvalle Web 3.0 - Semantic Web / Items. IJKEDM - Special Issue on: "Incentives for Semantic Content Creation". Get Feed · IJKEDM - Special Issue on: "Incentives for Semantic Content Creation". Description: Soon a decade will have passed since ... Twine | Web 3.0 - Semantic Web items - http://www.twine.com/twine/1w3b23v2-6j0/web-3-0-semantic-web/items

IDG.se: Så kodar du Web 3.0 IDG.se: Så kodar du Web 3.0. ... Så kodar du Web 3.0. Håller för närvarande på att undersöka hur webbutvecklingen kommer se ut framöver. Jag har länge pratat om hårdvaruaccelererad 3D i webbläsaren och nu är det verkligen på gång. ... Open Force - http://blogg.idg.se/openforce

wearable web 1

re: this vid, C R-B has:

The brainchild of Pranav Mistry, a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, the Sixth Sense is a wearable device that will enable us to gain seamless access to information…wherever we are! All I can say after watching the video is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant AND I want one! You’ve really got to see it to believe it, so rather than me attempting to communicate the brilliance of theSixth Sense, watch the video!

As a librarian and book lover I’m particularly excited about the impact the Sixth Sense will have on how we select, evaluate and tag books (5.53 mins into the film).

right on!

after 2.0 embed

Here we go with slides:

Life After 2.0

View more presentations from librarianmer.

Keep going, MF.

after 2.0 comes 3.0 if we get 2.0 right

Heavy D was at this Farkas talk in Chicago -- wish I coulda been too -- but he sent the slides link:

http://meredithfarkas.wetpaint.com/page/Life+After+2.0

Very relevant stuff -- and the kinds of issues I sink down into and get real nasty with in the book. There are ways to do 2.0 sloppy and bad. Meredith is exactly right on to raise these questions.

You are now invited to do 2.0 brilliantly*.

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Weather: the 'weather' has been burned from the face of Texas. There is no more weather. There is only breezeless heat.

Listening: "Summertime Clothes", Animal Collective

Reading: Kallistos Ware and J.K. Rowling

*Because if we don't get this right, the reality of semantic search will eat our lunch finally and completely. Sorta. Well, more details in book of course...

blog reboot

In the next few weeks this blog will get a reboot as the book is actually published. I'll be treating it as a working 'open notebook' for items relevant to L2 and L3 concerns. Hope you'll join in!